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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2008 1:02 PM, Marc Barrett <<a href="mailto:mnealbarrett@cox.net">mnealbarrett@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I am getting sick and tired of the inability to play h.264 1080p<br>videos under Linux without pausing and stuttering, while the
<br>same system can play them under Windows flawlessly.<br>Basically, you need a really fast system to play 1080p videos<br>under Linux, while a much slower system, along with a moderate<br>video card such as an nvidia 6200 and a PureVideo player,
<br>will do the job nicely under Windows. This is the exact opposite<br>of the way things are supposed to be traditionally.<br><br>So, what I am planning to do is get an HDHomeRun and<br>virtualize the MythTV installation under Windows. That way I
<br>could have the recordings saved to a shared partition, and<br>play them with Windows Media Player or some other player<br>that supports PureVideo. This will obviously have problems<br>in terms of speed, so I need ideas for options here.
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<div>You don't need virtualization to play videos under window. Just share your MythTV recordings folder out via Samba and map it as a drive in Windows and play it however you want. Myth will still run as normal under Linux and you just access the files remotely. Virtualization is not your answer.
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<div>Kevin</div></div>